You see abilitys like this from Izzets guildmage. Makes you wonder why they made the others comparably weaker.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(7/7/2010 3:52:46 PM)
@Kryptnyt
He chose Harrow because it would allow you to keep pulling untapped mountains out and reactivate the ability. So Rampant Growth wouldn't get the results he wanted. If you have an Amulet of Vigor in play it works though. Of course then you are dealing with a 4 card combo. Not exactly ideal.
Posted By:
Eved
(8/23/2010 11:24:54 AM)
Metamorphosis will not work people- The copies don't have sacrificed creatures, so they add 0 mana to your pool. That being said, with training grounds, manamorphose will work, at least until you run out of cards in your deck. Nature's Lore is probably the optimal land target, although you'll only get as many lands as you have forest-mountains... unless you can get your forests tapping for any color of mana.
Really, this is a spectacular johnny card, with all sorts of crazy combos to use with it.
Posted By:
sir_dwar
(11/7/2010 9:33:01 AM)
Can you say....death by Hornet Sting?
Hmm...yeah Lightning Bolt is quicker...
How about milling them with Tome Scour?
Obviously, you should first draw a portion of your deck and create a nice mana pool with Training Grounds +Manamorphose.
Oh yeah....Gelatinous Genesis!
Hmm...or Dark Ritual lol.
Posted By:
Manji187
(12/31/2010 2:28:28 AM)
What happens when the mana cost has an X on it. I know it counts as zero for the ability to qualify for the mana cost limit, but does it counts when you paid the X on the original card so the others are an exact copy of that with the X value of the first one?
Posted By:
Soul666
(2/14/2011 2:25:09 PM)
Less mana heavy would be this guy + Gelectrode and any Mana producing spell.
Desperate Ritual, Rite of Flame, Pyretic Ritual
Posted By:
BloodDragon
(5/26/2011 5:05:43 PM)
Maybe sm1 here could help me out....(Izzet Guildmage / Lava spike / Desperate Ritual)...Tell me, how are you 'splicing' onto copy's, when the copy's aren't been PLAYED, only the original card, ability's and/or effects get played. so really you can only splice once. Only the word 'copy' is getting played in this case.The copy's come from the stack, so how are you PLAYING them to activate a splice effect?? If ''Izzet Guildmage' stated ''you may PLAY the copy,etc'' then i could see how it would work. Can any1 fill me in on what iam missing???
Posted By:
An_thrax
(7/15/2011 6:15:59 AM)
@sir_dwar
Metamorphosis will work since the copy replicates the fulfilled sacrifice requirement, just like if you sacrifice a creature with five power to Fling and copy it for a total of ten damage with no other sacrifices required.
My third favorite Guildmage, right next to Orzhov and Simic.
Posted By:
En_Sigma
(8/11/2011 8:32:47 PM)
Rite of Flame x2, Seething Song, Lava Spike,Desperate Ritual, Easy turn 1 Win.
Rite of Flame is amazing with this card. If you have 2 in your graveyard you can get Infinite mana, also incredibly good card to help do a turn 1 Desperate Ritual/Lava Spike combo.
Turn 1:
Lay mana, tap mana,
Mana Pool: 1
Play Rite of Flame,
Mana Pool: 2
Play another Rite of Flame,
Mana Pool: 4
Play Seething Song,
Mana Pool: 6
Play Izzet Guildmage,
Mana Pool: 4
Play any mana advancement: desparate ritual, Seething Song, another Rite of Flame(if you have a 3rd here, its infinite mana potential anyway), pyretic ritual, simian spirit guide/autoc... (see all)
Posted By:
Zenzu
(11/2/2011 11:09:49 AM)
theres alot of people who read this card wrong, and halarious enough, i read it wrong and didnt realize its full potential even though i broke this card before i read this forum. my deck:
izzet guidlmage 4x
training ground 4x
sigil tracer 2x
information dealer 4x
sea gate oracle 2x
stonybrook banneret 3x
kaho, minamo historian 2x
isocron cepters 2x
snap 4x
brainstorm 4x
boomerang 2x
high tide 2x
truth or tale 2x
walk the aeons 2x(not for copying nor does it need to, pulled 2-4 turns usually using buy back)
arcane denial 1x
halimar depths 4x
island 16x
this is one of my most favorite decks (1/32 at the moment) please dont make exact copy unless to test otherwise. this deck feeds off of creatures, and the only ways i can think to stop this deck is to counter izzet guildmage or use pithing needle naming izzet guildmage.
i was planning making another deck of this guy using rite of flame with forked bolts, skull scorch, recoup, reckless charge, and maybe overmasterca... (see all)
Posted By:
datis7
(11/18/2011 3:04:34 AM)